Posted AT 1:14 AM EDT on 23/06/07
The Dehydrated States of America
NEAR FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Standing on the top of Deadman Butte, the damage spreads as far as the eye can see .
Across the broad, parched plain below, stands of dead pinyon pine trees mingle with still-living junipers, grey death amidst green life.
"This used to be a pinyon and juniper woodland," Neil Cobb, an ecological research scientist at Northern Arizona University, remarks sadly. "Now it's just juniper.
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